It is hard to be avoid being critical of the United States at the present time. The current administration has so distorted the rule of law that it would drive anyone insane! At the same time, it is great to be reminded how fortunate we are to live in this wonderful country, many of us purely by luck of being born here.
A wedding in Acapulco provided a beautiful setting for a most happy occasion. However, Mexico is not the United States! We enjoy so much freedom with a degree of economic security (however, not all and surely not experienced by many) with a set of laws that most people outside the current administration obey unless they want to experience time is an unpleasant setting, generally called a jail. To sense the economic hardship Mexicans experience trying to support themselves makes one see why so many try to enter this country one way or another. Seeing people working hard each day with relatively little to show for it and virtually no hope for "better days ahead" serves to sensitize me further to my good fortune and the need to extend economic hope to others. When you consider that Mexico is our "partner" in NAFTA, you would think that they would be significantly better off. However, once again, USA benefited disproportionately to the gains of our partner. Rather than imposing new fences to separate us, one would think that we would have opened our borders completely as the Europe has done after they become an economic and trading union. If there were no border control, two things would happen:(1) Mexico would receive more investments and would benefit by our involvement, and (2) the ready availability of more laborers would saturate the demand and the supply would finally abate. No one would come to this country to remain poor!
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